Today we remember 6 million Jews massacred as part of a hate-filled, premeditated, industrialized genocide. Massacred for being Jews.
Plus millions of Romani, homosexual, and disabled victims.
Nazism was the greatest evil of the past 100 years and we cannot allow it to return.
The rise of the far right is truly concerning. And as a Muslim, the Holocaust denial that still rears its head in some Muslim communities is frustrating.
“denying or ignoring the Holocaust does nothing to advance that cause. Palestinian suffering is not reduced by belittling the mass murder of Europe's Jews.”
I wrote about awful Holocaust denialism in parts of the Muslim-majority world almost a decade ago: newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-ha…
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Tonight on the @MehdiHasanShow, I'll talk infrastructure, spending, 'Bidenomics,' and the seemingly new progressive moment we're in, with economist and former Labor Secretary @RBReich.
Tonight, on the @MehdiHasanShow, whatever happened to the GOP treating corporations as people, with First Amendment rights? Or was that only for donations?
Tonight, on the @MehdiHasanShow, I'll speak to Crystal Mason, who was ridiculously sentenced to five years in prison for voting on supervised release in 2016, when she didn't realize she was ineligible in Texas.
Me: "Since the pandemic... border apprehensions have gone up month after month. Joe Biden did not inherit falling numbers."
GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw: "I don't know where you're getting figures from."
Me: "Those are CBP numbers."
On @MSNBC tonight, I asked GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw why he said on Fox, twice, that Biden has been telling migrants "we're not gonna deport you," given 72% of migrants apprehended at the border in Feb were expelled straight away.
Watch his, ahem, response:
Me: "Do you know many migrants were sent to Honduras & El Salvador under what you call 'very important' Asylum Cooperation Agreements?"
Rep. Dan Crenshaw: "I don't have the numbers."
Me: "Roughly?"
Crenshaw: "I don't have that data on me."
Me: "Zero."
“Asylum seekers swept up in the MPP program face kidnapping, sexual assault, exploitation, lack of basic necessities, abuse and other dangers in Mexico”
Also, until 1987, the FCC enforced the Fairness Doctrine, backed by the courts: “In 1969 the United States Supreme Court, in Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, upheld the FCC's general right to enforce the fairness doctrine where channels were limited.”
"This [Texas] disaster, this crisis, has helped to reveal that, these days, the United States is less superpower & more failed state. That's what we'd call another country going through what we're going through."
Pretty sure I’ll be holding this administration to account on foreign policy more than most of the armchair generals on Twitter, but it doesn’t mean I can’t also acknowledge history and culture today.
Some of us can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Others just want to pose.
But apparently acknowledging that something historic happened today, and that the new Vice President of America eats idlis, now means I support drone strikes.